The Meaning of Money

Besides helping yourselves to a good dose of glitter and helping us run 39.3 miles, here are some concrete ways that your money will help My Heart’s Desire and all the animals:

If you donate $10, you could finance:

• 3 gallons of gas for the volunteers of My Heart’s Desire to travel to kill shelters and rescue animals


• 100s of information packets and flyers to educate families about proper animal care and training tips to keep animals and families happy and thus shelters empty

If you donate $25, you could buy:

• A can of milk for puppies and kitties that don’t have a mother to get natural milk from


• Food for 86 dogs and cats for a whole day
  

If you donate $50, you could supply:

• A dog house for disadvantaged families to keep their pets warm and off the street


• Blankets to keep dozens of animals warm at night and real comfy
  
  

If you donate $100, you could:

• Pay half of a dog’s heartworm treatment. Heartworm is the number 1 killer of dogs in the South!


• Feed a single animal for over a year!! Or feed 2 animals for 6 months!! Or feed 5 animals for 2 months!!

Helping us reach $1,000 would:

• Keep the shelter open for a month


• Completely vaccinate and spay/neuter a rescued animal
  
  
  

So you see, if we reach our goal of $3,930,
we can do ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So please...

Rootin' Rudy

This is Rudy. He is probably most accurately described as a crappy discarded Walmart lamp that my coworker Jennifer and I put a paper mustache on. He lives in my office. He used to be a cowboy a la Timothy Olyphant in Deadwood. Then he was a pizzeria owner ("He make-a the pizza pie!!"). Now he's a 1970s-era jogger in short shorts. I've requested some Jared-Leto-as-Prefontaine hair. Jennifer's working on that with some black tissue paper.

The most important part of Rudy's current ensemble, as you will notice, is the 3M Half Marathon Finisher's Medal swingin' from his neck like whoa. I know it kinda looks like it came out of The Simpsons, but it did not. It came out of 2 hours and 20 minutes of my life. And very soon, I can prove it when I post some pictures of that same medal swingin' from my own neck. Like a boss.

In summary, this is to say that I am alive. I have completed my first ever half marathon. I have pictures. And they will be posted here soon. They include a very special race day t-shirt that we designed just for you. One guess what it was covered in. It starts with "G" and ends in "mothertruckin' LITTER." That's right. Stay tuned.

Glitter Makes it Better

Lots of things look better with glitter. For instance,

A pair of old jeans I sold on ebay

No Glitter:

GLITTER!





this Belizean Monkey

No Glitter:

GLITTER!





Our Grandmother

No Glitter:



GLITTER!



But most importantly, your name. On a tshirt. On race day.




Oh yeah.

Sponsor Our Thoughts

When we are running, and we are running your sponsored part of the race, we will think of you, and only you.

Like this:

We will think of us doing awesome things with you.

RUNNING IN A PARK!

CLIMBING A TREE!

HOSTING A PARTY!

HANGING OUT AT GEORGE W. BUSH'S HOUSE!

FEEDING ANIMALS AND BEING REALLY APPREHENSIVE!

SEEING THE ALAMO! Is our bicycle in the basement??

RIDING A CABLE CAR! It's the San Francisco Treat.

GIVING HUGS! They're free.

SHOPPING AT THE KWIK-E-MART! Doh.

As you can see, your money will buy a lot of awesome adventures. And save animals.

Meet Who You Are Helping

Watch this short video below and meet the kinds of animals
My Heart's Desire and your donations are helping!!

Dress Us Up

Race day tshirts are a pretty important part of our race preparation. When we run, we like to shine like the top of the Chrysler Building.

Exhibits:

To that end, we will be making more totally awesome, bedazzlingly glorious shirts. And if you're awesome enough to donate, you're awesome enough to go on our shirts.

Imagine, this could be in your future:

We know, we're getting all tingly too.

Read about Ripley!

Ripley was named after Ripley's Believe it or Not! (click to read the whole story)

Ripley before:

Believe it or not, there's a dog under there!

Ripley after:

Ripley's just one of the many rescues that MHD has helped. Help them help more. Click the donate button below.